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Contributing Scientists

This page lists researchers at the University of Cologne that contribute to the Competence Area 3, as well as their fields of research (including topical and methodological keywords). Please note that the list is work in progress! CA3 is open to all interested researchers, please contact the coordinator in case you wish to join.
Name Homepage Field of Research Keywords (Topics) Keywords (Methods)    
Andreas Beyer http://cellnet-sb.cecad.uni-koeln.de/ Cellular Networks and Systems Biology Ageing research, oncology, systems genetics Machine learning, network biology    
Dirk Blunk http://www.oc.uni-koeln.de/blunk/ Organic chemistry        
Susanne Crewell https://www.geomet.uni-koeln.de/crewell.html Meteorology Remote Sensing      
Silvia Daun http://www.zoologie.uni-koeln.de/daun.html Zoology        
Rainer Dyckerhoff http://www.wisostat.uni-koeln.de/ Econometrics, statistics        
Gregor Gassner http://www.mi.uni-koeln.de/NumSim/ Mathematics: Numerical Simulation        
Bernd Goldfuß http://www.uni-koeln.de/goldfuss/ Organic chemistry        
David Gross http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/gross/ Quantum information, mathematical physics        
Michael Hanrath http://www.tc.uni-koeln.de/people/hanrath/ Theoretical chemistry        
Jürgen Hermes http://dh.uni-koeln.de/jhermes.html Digital Humanities Computational linguistics Machine learning, text mining    
Dominik Hezel http://www.geologie.uni-koeln.de/1848.html Geo-/cosmochemistry        
Sandro Jahn http://www.geologie.uni-koeln.de/2373.html Mineralogy/crystallography Computational mineral physics, geological fluids, fluid-rock interactions at high pressures and temperatures Molecular dynamics simulation, density-functional theory, theoretical spectroscopy and thermodynamics    
Michael Jünger https://informatik.uni-koeln.de/ls-juenger/ Computer Science        
Wolfgang Ketter http://www.is3.uni-koeln.de/ Information Systems for Sustainable Society        
Axel Klawonn http://www.numerik.uni-koeln.de/ Numerical mathematics and scientific computing        
Stefan Kneifel https://www.geomet.uni-koeln.de/space-and-planets1.html Meteorology Charakterisierung der Streueigenschaften von Schnee- und Eispartikeln in Wolken, Modellierung mikrophysikalischer Prozesse in Wolken, Wechselwirkung von Wolkenmikrophysik auf großräumige Wolkeneigenschaften Diskrete Dipol-Approximation (DDA) und Entwicklung von Näherungen für die Streurechnungen, Hochaufgelöste Simulationen mit dem neuen Vorhersagemodell ICON    
Pavlos Kollias https://www.portal.uni-koeln.de/12064.html Meteorology        
Sigrun Korsching http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/genetik/groups/Korsching/index.html Genetics   Phylogeny, Receptor/Ligand modelling    
Ulrich Lang https://vis.uni-koeln.de/ Computer Science        
Brigitte Mathiak http://cceh.uni-koeln.de Digital Humanities        
Martin Nawrot http://www.zoologie.uni-koeln.de/nawrot.html , https://twitter.com/nawrot_group Zoology Computational Neuroscience, Neural Coding, Neural Plasticity, Learning and Memory, Primate Motor Control Spiking neural networks, neuronal attractor networks, deep architectures, multivariate spike train statistics, mean field theory, neurophysiology    
Roel Neggers https://www.geomet.uni-koeln.de/1864.html Meteorology        
Claes Neuefeind http://www.spinfo.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/24634.html Linguistic data processing Computational linguistics Machine learning, artificial intelligence    
Eleftheria Paliou http://archaeoinformatik.uni-koeln.de Archäologie Archäoinformatik/computational archeology complex systems simulation, agent-based modelling, network analysis (social network analysis and spatial network analysis), spatio-temporal modelling with R    
Eric Parteli http://www.geosciences.uni-koeln.de/compgeoteam.html Geosciences granular geomaterials, planetary geomorphology, desertification Discrete-Element-Methods, continuum geomorphic modeling, statistical physics    
Felix Rau http://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/rau.html General linguistics Audio-visual data analysis, linguistics Machine learning    
Achim Rosch http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/rosch/ Theoretical condensed-matter physics Topological and correlated quantum matter, magnetic skyrmions, quantum systems far from thermal equilibrium Quantum field theory, numerical simulations of quantum and classical systems using exact diagonalization, Landau-Lifshitz equations, Monte Carlo approaches, Langevin equations.    
Joachim Saur https://www.geomet.uni-koeln.de/space-and-planets.html Space Physics        
Andreas Schadschneider http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~as/ Theoretical Physics, Statistical Physics Nonequilibrium physics, stochastic processes, traffic, pedestrian dynamics Modeling of complex systems, agent-based modeling, Monte Carlo simulation    
Martin Scheffel http://cmr.uni-koeln.de/ Macroeconomics        
Peter Schilke https://astro.uni-koeln.de/schilke.html Astrophysics Analysis of astrophysical data Exploration of Machine Learning methods for automatic source classification    
Yaping Shao https://www.geomet.uni-koeln.de/171.html Meteorology        
Christian Sohler https://cs.uni-koeln.de/ls-sohler Algorithmische Datenanalyse        
Simon Trebst http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/trebst/ Computational Physics        
Achim Tresch https://imsieweb.uni-koeln.de/ Medizinische Statistik und Bioinformatik Analysis of genome-wide data, regulation of gene expression, RNA metabolism nonparametric methods for high dimensional data, probabilistic graphical models    
Frank Vallentin http://www.mi.uni-koeln.de/opt/ Mathematics Optimization, geometry, discrete mathematics      
Sacha van Albada https://www.fz-juelich.de/inm/inm-6/EN/Forschung/TheoNeuroana/artikel.html;jsessionid=25B87597D27EE11BA362D76D411648F1?nn=724620 Theoretical Neuroanatomy        
Stefanie Walch https://hera.ph1.uni-koeln.de/~walch/Steffi_Walchs_homepage/Main.html Theoretical Astrophysics        
Lex Wennmacher https://www.geomet.uni-koeln.de/wennmacher.html#c6086 Space Physics        
Thomas Wiehe http://www.bioinf-popgen.uni-koeln.de/wiehe-research.html Bioinformatics & Population Genetics Bioinformatics & Population Genetics Mathematical modeling, simulations    
Roman Wienands http://www.mi.uni-koeln.de/~wienands/ Numerical mathematics        
Andreas Zilges https://www.ikp.uni-koeln.de/groups/zilges/ Nuclear Physics Nuclear structure, Nuclear Astrophysics, Nuclear photonics, detector development Monte Carlo simulations of complex experimental setups for basic research and applications